MARIA MADEIRA
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| Location | Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
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| Introduction | Maria Madeira was born in 1969, in the village of Gleno in the Ermera region of East Timor. She was evacuated from Timor in 1976 during the Indonesian invasion and spent eight years in a refugee camp in Lisbon, Portugal. She immigrated to Australia with her family in August 1983. While in Australia, Maria has gone on to complete three University qualifications: a B.A. Fine Arts (Visual Arts) Degree from Curtin University in 1991, a Graduate Diploma of Education (Major in Art) from Curtin University in 1993, and a B.A. in Political Science from Murdoch University in 1996. Between 1996 and 2000, Maria worked in Western Australia as a high school art teacher and for several arts and culture organizations. From 2000 to 2004 she returned to East Timor, where she was employed as interpreter, translator and cultural adviser for AUSAID and the United Nations’. While there she designed the Ambulance Logo and worked voluntarily every Saturday as an art teacher at the Arte Moris art school. To date, Maria has held over fifteen solo or group exhibitions, across Australia, Portugal and East Timor. |